Benchmark Standards

How do you know progress is real instead of narrative?

Benchmarks convert standards from opinion into operational evidence.

Why Benchmarks

Without Benchmarks	With Benchmarks
Claims compete	Evidence compares
Work drifts	Variance is visible
Decisions are political	Decisions are thresholded
Quality depends on heroics	Quality depends on protocol

Benchmark Families

Use domain-specific benchmark standards for each layer:

Family	Focus	Primary Use
AI/LLM	Model and workflow performance	Reliability, cost, latency, safety
Blockchain	Settlement and interoperability performance	Transaction quality and network utility
Wallet Safety	Wallet UX and architectural safety	Key protection, transaction transparency, destructive operation prevention
Information Architecture	Navigation and findability quality	Information retrieval speed and clarity
UI Design	Render, usability, and accessibility quality	Human-visible quality gates

Trigger Loop

Benchmarks only matter if they trigger operating decisions:

State	Trigger	Decision
Pass	Meets all required thresholds	Promote current standard
Warn	Misses a non-critical threshold	Run corrective loop and re-test
Fail	Misses a critical threshold	Hold rollout or rollback

No trigger, no benchmark discipline.

Use Sequence

1. Select the benchmark family for the system you are evaluating
2. Define thresholds before execution
3. Run evaluation with reproducible protocol
4. Trigger decision workflow from result state
5. Record outcome and update standard

Context

• Standards — Standards define repeatable outcomes
• Process Optimisation — PDCA operating loop
• Performance — Measurement and decision discipline
• Network Protocols — Coordination layer across systems